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Biographical Information

The Rev. Edwin Abbott Abbott was born in 1838.
He was a English schoolmaster, theologian and writer of biblical and literary subjects. He is most remembered for his mathematical satire Flatland.

Education

  • City of London school

  • St. John's College, Cambridge. He received honours in the classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college.

    Employment
  • He was a master at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Clifton College.

  • 1865 - He became headmaster of the City of London School in 1865, succeeding G. F. Mortimer. He was twenty-six.

  • 1876 - Hulsean lecturer.

  • 1889 - Retired


  • Contributions
    Dr. Abbott was a liberal theologian who published widely.
    His works are detailed below.

    Relatives and Influences
  • Evelyn Abbott (1843 - 1901), his brother wrote a history of Greece and was tutor at Balliol College, Oxford.



  • [ history ]

    Chronological Publication Listing (as at Nov 28, 2004)

  • 1870 - Shakespearian Grammar [NF]
  • (Significant contribution.)
  • 1876 - Bacon's Essays [NF]

  • 1877 - Bacon and Essex [NF]

  • 1878 - Philochristus [F]

  • 1882 - Onesimus [F]

  • 1885 - Francis Bacon - His Life and Works [NF]

  • 1884 - Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions [NF]

  • 1886 - The Kernel and the Husk [NF]

  • 1891 - Philomythus [NF]

  • 1892 - The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman [NF]

  • 1898 - St. Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles [NF]

  • 1904 - Paradosis [NF]

  • 1905 - Johannine Vocabulary [NF]

  • 1906 - Sitanus the Christian [F]

  • 1905 - Johannine Grammar [NF]


  • "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.


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    Author
    Date of birth: December 20, 1838
    Place of birth: England
    Date of death: 1926
    Genre: English theologian and biblical writer.

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